Baby Shower Numero Dos!

Today was my second baby shower, thrown by 2 of my good friends at the school I work at. They threw a "family shower" for me so that kids and dads could be a part of the fun and festivities. It was really nice. We had a big brunch, and I brought some onigiri (Japanese rice balls) and some little Japanese snack nuts to share. I was impressed by the few people who tried the rice balls. More were willing to try the nuts, except the ones with squid flavor. Those aren't my favorite either.


We got some more very cool stuff. Here's a diaper cake made by my friend, Tracy, who threw the shower.

















Also, we got some more baby clothes for little Lily. Boy, I really hope she is definitely a girl, because otherwise we're going to have a very pink-dressed boy!

Our biggest surprise was a gift from everyone. They went in and got the car seat/stroller travel system that we registered for. We were blown away! I really, really was not expecting that at all. Just yesterday I was bugging Koichi that we should just go ahead and buy it ourselves because I didn't want to get caught having the baby early and have no car seat. He told me to calm down, and good thing. He must be psychic, because here it is the next day and we have it! And it only took 3 guys to put it all together for us.

We really feel blessed to have so many great friends here who are so generous. And though I was super-duper excited about the car seat, I was just as excited about this....

ICE CREAM CAKE! YUM!!!!